Sectoral minimum wages in South Africa: Disemployment by firm size and trade exposureThis paper measures the impact of South African minimum wages on small and large firm employment in a sector that is exposed to international competition (agriculture) and one that is not (retail). Small farm ...
We analyse the long‐term trends in wage inequality in South Africa, using household survey data. We show that the trends in household income inequality are largely driven by changes in wage inequality. Given the detailed nature of our series we show that measurement issues and breaks in the ...
Wages and wage elasticities for wine and table grapes in South Africa. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, Stellenbosch.Conradie, B. (2004), `Wages and wage elasticities for wine and table grapes in South Africa.' Centre for ...
(2010) find that 45% of covered workers get paid wages below the legislated minimum wage in South Africa, Belser and Rani (2010) report that 25.3% of workers earn below national minimum wage floor and 27.2% of workers below state-level minimum wages in India. Lemos (2006) reports that ...
SANTIAGO, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Real wages in Chile fell 2.4 percent in October year-on-year and 1.7 percent in the past 12 months, the National Institute of Statistics (INE) said Tuesday. Data showed that real wages, which refer to wages adjusted for inflation, have lost value due to ...
Secondly, it appears that hours of work increased more in areas where wages were lower in the pre-law period, driven largely by the fall in part-time employment. 展开 关键词: Minimum wage agriculture South Africa wage employment hours of work ...
In September 2002 South Africa saw the implementation of labour market regulation policy in the market for domestic workers, known as Sectoral Determination 7: domestic worker sector. This policy has been promulgated through the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, No 75 of 1997. The primary rational...
Civil War in England: The Clubs, the RFU, and the Impact of Professionalism on Rugby Union, 1995-99. Discusses the impact of professionalization on the English Rugby Football Union. Roots of the Open Game; Impact of satellite television; Events in professi... Smith,Adrian - 《Contemporary Bri...
Reworking Apartheid Legacies: Global Competition, Gender and Social Wages in South Africa, 1980–2000 In the early 1980s, the apartheid state offered some of the most generous incentives in the world for labour-intensive industries to locate in 'industrial decentralization points' either in or adjac...
Average hourly wages in China’s manufacturing sector trebled between 2005 and 2016 to $3.60, according to Euromonitor, while during the same period manufacturing wages fell from $2.90 an hour to $2.70 in Brazil, from $2.20 to $2.10 in Mexico, and from $4.30 to $3.60 in South Africa. ...